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The Story and Language of Heraldry by Stephen Slater (Southwater Books, £8.99)

8:00am Wednesday 8th May 2013

IT is uncertain when heraldry was born but in England it is associated with the reign of Henry I (1068-1135) when an illustration in a manuscript of that time shows shields with geometric patterns on them.

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Trees and Woodland in In The South Yorkshire Landscape Melvyn Jones (Wharncliffe Books Ltd £16.99)

8:00am Wednesday 8th May 2013

THOSE living outside Yorkshire tend to still think of its south region as being mainly an industrial and mining area and yet Sheffield is the most wooded city in the country and the region is blessed with many ancient woodlands and green-leafed areas.

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The Art Of India: Images Of Nature Judith Magee (Natural History Museum, £12.99)

8:00am Wednesday 8th May 2013

THE East India Company played an important part in employing artists to illustrate specimens of Indian plants and animals.

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Life And Death In Pompeii And Herculaneum Paul Roberts (British Museum Press, £45)

8:00am Wednesday 8th May 2013

PUBLISHED to accompany the major exhibition at the British Museum, this wonderful book reveals Pompeii and Herculaneum as they must have been and shows us the tragedy of their loss in AD 79 when Vesuvius erupted, producing an ash cloud 19 miles high.

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Folklore of Yorkshire by Kai Roberts (History Press, £16.99)

11:38am Saturday 4th May 2013

EDWARD Fairfax of Fewston – off the A59 beyond Harrogate – was, by all accounts, an accomplished writer who was praised by John Dryden, the future Poet Laureate. But he also seems to have been pretty unpleasant.

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Yorkshire’s Strangest Tales by Leonora Rustamova (Portico, £7.99)

11:39am Saturday 4th May 2013

A little bit of ambition can be a very good thing: and boy, is Yorkshire’s Strangest Tales ambitious. Author Leonora Rustamova hasn’t contented herself with retelling well-known folk tales from the last few centuries (though there are a few of those here too).

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Prisoner Of War Camps In Britain During The Second World War, Jon and Diane Sutherland (Golden Guides Press £16.99)

7:00am Wednesday 1st May 2013

THIS book fills a gap in the history of the Second World War; little has been written about these camps and there are many intriguing facts and stories to be told about them.

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My Granny's Baking Book, Catherine Best (Southwater, £7.99)

7:00am Wednesday 1st May 2013

IF your mouth isn’t watering after looking through this book then rush off to try any one of the recipes that takes your fancy.

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Tarnished by Julia Crouch (Headline £11.99)

7:00am Wednesday 1st May 2013

PEG has made a new life for herself in London with a new partner but visits her grandmother and aunt every week.

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Revelations of a Lady Detective, William Stephens Hayward (The British Library £8.99)

7:00am Wednesday 1st May 2013

First published in 1864 this book remained one of only two books to have as their leading character a female detective.

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Above All Thnigs by Tanis Rideout (Viking, £12.99)

7:00am Wednesday 1st May 2013

TO use facts as the basis of a novel and weave a plausible and absorbing story throughout those facts is an exceptional skill.

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